Woman Obtains a College Degree 75 Years After Graduation by Paying the $5 Graduation Fee

This is one for the history books. Jessie White was supposed to graduate from Beal College in Bangor, Maine, in 1939, but a $5 transcript fee kept her from receiving her degree. Now 99 years old, White was finally awarded her degree in stenography and bookkeeping this week in a special ceremony hosted by the president of Beal College, Alan Stehle.

He has been involved in genealogy for more than 35 years. He
has worked in the computer industry for more than 40 years in hardware,
software, and managerial positions. By the early 1970s, Dick was already
using a mainframe computer to enter his family data on punch cards. He
built his first home computer in 1980.